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Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2014

ReVuln team founds a zero-day in SCADA component

At S4x14 Conference in Miami, a researcher at of ReVuln disclosed a buffer overflow zero-day flaw in HMI software produced by Malaysian company Ecava. During the S4x14 Conference in Miami, Luigi Auriemma of ReVuln disclosed a serious vulnerability in HMI software. The team of researchers at ReVuln discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the company’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2013

54 Million Turkish Citizens data stoled by Russian Hackers

Researchers from KONDA Security firm have discovered that the Russian hackers have stolen personal information of 54 Million Turkish Citizens. Unknown Russian hackers have reportedly stolen Personal details of nearly 54 million Turkish citizens, the data breach is clamorous if we consider that the figure represents nearly 70% of the whole Turkish population. The Hurriyet daily news […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2013

A Zero-Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component – CVE-2013-3906

Microsoft Zero-day CVE-2013-3906 – Microsoft informed to be aware of a vulnerability in a Microsoft graphics component that is actively exploited in targeted attacks using crafted Word documents sent by email. A new zero-day vulnerability has been found a Microsoft product that could allow attackers to install a malware via infected Word documents. The Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2013

How to respond to a data breach

The number of cyber attacks is increased in an impressive way, cyber criminals, hacktivists, independent and state-sponsored hackers are daily operating in cyberspace conducting more or less dangerous offensive. Everyone is exposed to concrete risks of cyber attacks, internet users, private business and government offices, that’s why is fundamental to have a clear idea on […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2013

Threat Report H2 2012 proposed by F-Secure

Today the principal channel for malware diffusion is considered internet, large diffusion of exploit kits and crimeware such as BlackHole, Cool Exploit and Incognito have automated the infection process over the network. Majority of attacks exploits vulnerabilities in large use applications, such as browsers, and the leak of responsive patch management expose users to serious […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2013

Security flaws in Universal Plug and Play expose million devices

Rapid7 security firm has published an interesting whitepaper entitled “Security Flaws in Universal Plug and Play” in which reports the result of a research conducted in the second half of 2012 that evaluated the global exposure of UPnP-enabled network devices. Security world has become accustomed to so surprising data, over 80 million unique IPs were identified […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2013

The rise of exploit kits according to Solutionary SERT

Today I desire to discuss about a very interesting study by Solutionary’s Security Engineering Research Team (SERT) that shared the results related an analysis on malware and exploit kits diffusion observed with its solution ActiveGuard service platform. The platform has collected and analyzed malicious events that hit company clients globally, the data have been provided […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2012

5 Reasons Why You Need Good Patch Management

Patch management is one area where many IT organizations struggle. The operating systems vendors have done a good job with providing easy patching solutions for their products, but there are so many third party applications out there to patch that it can become an impossible task. With new vulnerabilities announced each week, keeping up with […]